Replay Hockey League Newsletter
League established October 1st, 1999
Volume #1, Issue #8 – June 7, 2015
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Current League Officers:
Commissioner: Mark McNeil
Vice-Commissioner: Dean Engemoen
Email List Administrator: Mark
McNeil
Email the whole league:
mailto:replayhockey@yahoogroups.com
League Web Site:
http://www.blades99.com/RHL/RHL.htm
MESSAGE FROM THE COMMISSIONER
Thanks guys for another great season and an
even better playoffs.
Congratulations to Sean Savage and the Toronto
Maple Leafs for winning their second straight RHL Cup beating out the
commissioner and his Buffalo Sabres in 6 games.
Also congratulations to the award winners for
this year which are all included below and of course on the league
awards page.
I have updated the coaching records page for
anyone who is interested.
Mark McNeil and the Buffalo Sabres go over 700
wins this year, while Craig Steel and Curtis Aikens pass the 600 win
mark and Sean Savage, Phil Goldring and John Burns all get their 500
wins this season.
Mark McNeil is in sight of 100 playoff wins at
98, while Sean Savage goes over 80 wins and is at a near .600 pace.
Toronto also got it’s 100th
playoff win as a franchise, the first team to hit that plateau.
Final playoff files are up for anyone who is
interested, go ahead and get them and enjoy.
It’s the offseason now, I will get started on
the new excel file soon (anyone have the NHL stats in excel?) and the
ratings are being worked on and I will get things rolling as soon as
they are finalized.
No trading until the ratings are finalized,
but feel free to talk all you want.
The draft order is up and finalized with
traded picks for those interested.
As soon as the final ratings are released I
will put out an updated spreadsheet and figure we will have free agent
decisions due a couple of weeks after.
RHL AWARD RESULTS
Wayne Gretzky Award (MVP)
As is often the case the scoring race winner is again the
league MVP,
this years it is the NY Islanders Patrick Sharp who led
the league with
105 points and led the voting with 10 first place votes
and 19 ballots
overall for the easy win.
Ovechkin edges out Seguin on the strength of
a couple of extra first place votes (6 to 4) and Bishop
finishes a close
4th with 4 1st place votes of his own.
Terry Sawchuk Trophy (Best Goaltender)
Ben Bishop is the run away winner in this category as he
takes in 16
first place votes and is on 23 ballots (ok, which one of
you goofballs
didn't vote for him at all? :O).
Ryan Miller edges out Rask for the
second slot despite only having 3 first place votes to
Rask's 4 by
receiving 11 second place votes.
Doug Harvey Trophy (Defensive Dman)
A guy who didn't even make any of the All-League teams
ends up at the
top of the category as Shea Weber takes home the vote for
the top
defensive dman in the league on the strength of 12 first
place votes and
17 ballots.
McDonagh finishes a distant second with 4
first place votes
and 17 ballots as well.
Jack Johnson was a close third with 6 first
place votes but not quite enough to get near the top
spot.
Tyler Myers
receives the other two first place votes.
Bobby Orr Award (Offensive Dman)
This one was not surprise as Victor Hedman leads the
All-League voting
on defense and he edges out Erik Karlsson for the top
offensive dman in
the league this season on the strength of 8 first place
votes to only 6
for Karlsson.
Pietrangelo receives just 2 first place votes,
but his 7
second place votes were enough for third place.
Bob Gainey Trophy (Defensive Forward)
A runaway win for Jonathan Toews as he has 13 first place
votes and 20
total ballots to take the top spot.
Bergerson was a very distant second
with 3 first place votes and Marleau just edges Getzlaf
for third as
both end up tied and with 2 first place votes, but
Marleau has an extra
second place vote to earn the spot.
Cam Neely Award (Power Forward)
Another close vote as we have 3 players with 6 first
place votes each,
but David Backes takes home the award as he was on 17
total ballots to
edge out Ovechkin for the top spot.
Bergeron also had 6 first place
votes, but then didn't show up on another ballot for the
most unusual
part of this years voting.
Ace Bailey Award (Rookie of the Year)
This one was a two horse race but in the end wasn't as
close as it
looked as Nathan MacKinnon is this years rookie of the
year. MacKinnon
has 14 first place votes to 9 for Monahan and finished on
21 total
ballots to just 20 for Monahan who finished a strong
second.
Maata was
a distant third place with no first place votes.
Scotty Bowman Award (Coach of the Year)
First off let me say that you all are the biggest bunch
of brown nosers
I have ever seen, but thanks, as somehow I take home the
coach of the
year honors with 13 first place votes and 22 of 24
ballots for an easy
win.
Jean-Guy was second with 6 first place votes
and 17 ballots and
Sean Savage finishes in third place with 4 first place
votes.
Sam Pollock Award (GM of the Year)
A little closer vote this time but Sean Savage is the
clear gm of the
year as he has 9 first place votes and 15 total ballots.
Crag Steel
edges out Mark McNeil by a single vote because of his 6
first place
votes to just 3 for me and an extra third place vote that
puts him over
the top.
Bob Nystrom Award (Playoff MVP)
Usually this gets added later, but since the playoffs are
done, I will
put this one on here as well. Many players were deserving
of this award
as Pominville and Marleau put up 22 and 20 points
respectively for
Buffalo including 12 goals for Marleau.
Duncan Keith had 18 assists to
lead all skaters and Henrique and Malkin each score 6
goals for their
clubs.
Ryan Miller put up 14 wins with just a 52.6
IRSV% and .894 sv
pct, while Crawford matched his 14 wins with a 60 IRSV%
and a .924 sv
pct, but in the end, it's Alexander Ovechkin who scores
16 goals, 6 on
the powerplay and 4 game winners for 24 total points in
just 20 games
who is this years Playoff MVP.
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OVERUSAGE
(season)
Player
Team
GP/Max
Devante Smith-Pelly
WSH
23/19
Filip Forsberg
WSH
14/13
Reid Boucher
PHI
24/23
Pierre-Marc Bouchard
DET
32/28
Tomas Hertl
NYR
39/37
Zbynek Michalek
NYR
60/59
Mark Arcobello
MTL
42/41
Ryan Jones
PHX
56/52
Matt Hackett
PIT
9/8
Draft Pick
Penalties
Teams with only 1 player overused receive warnings only
NY Rangers - 2 players overused for 3 games, 5th round pick
Washington - 2 players overused for 5 games, 5th round pick
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